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| Fatal police chase ends with teen trapped under squad car: ‘Get this thing off me’ |
“Did your associate get away?” Greenhaw said he asked him, according to cloister affidavit appear this anniversary by Courthouse News Service.
Then, he said, he noticed a brace of legs bulging from beneath his badge car.
The disciplinarian was pinned, his torn T-shirt circuitous up in the tire. Greenhaw testified that he heard the boyhood arrant for help.
“Get this affair off me; it hurts,” 19-year-old Jason Trevino said, the administrator recalled. “Get this off me. I can’t breathe.”
Greenhaw jumped aback into his convoying car to move it, according to reports, but the engine would not start. So he alleged a tow barter for help.
Trevino was rushed to a hospital with torn ribs, a burst sternum and derma ripped from his legs and his hands. He died hours later.
Following a years-long civil-rights battle, Greenhaw was austere of all accountability by a board Wednesday in U.S. District Court.
Trevino’s parents, Lloyd Trevino and Catherine Cortez, had sued the administrator for boundless force over the baleful 2011 incident, adage their son was bent and airish no blackmail if he was killed.
Attorneys for the ancestors brought the civilian case adjoin Greenhaw and the city-limits of Houston in 2013, arguing that Greenhaw abandoned the Fourth Amendment in application boundless force; the city, they said, abandoned the 14th Amendment in declining to appropriately alternation the officer.
No bent accuse were filed adjoin Greenhaw.
Randall Kallinen, an advocate for Trevino’s mother, said Thursday that was aghast by the jury’s adjudication in the civilian clothing because the “complete abridgement of training” for off-road pursuits agency there are no systems in abode to anticipate approaching tragedies.
“He didn’t accept the training that would anticipate this blazon of adventure from happening,” Kallinen said of Greenhaw.
Following the verdict, Trevino’s aunt, Carol Ludtke, told Courthouse News Service that she approached Greenhaw and asked him for an acknowledgment for her nephew’s death.
But the administrator refused, she said — afraid his arch and walking abroad in silence.
Trevino and his friend, Bernard Seetaram, were accused of burglary a fishing baiter and a bivouac from a aback backyard in northeast Houston in the aboriginal morning hours on July 27, 2011, according to Courthouse News Service.
One administrator after told the cloister that he saw the brace affairs it abaft the ATV.
The administrator pursued them, he testified, but he absent them down a aphotic clay road.
Greenhaw said he bent up with them hours after and resumed the chase.
“Hindsight is 20/20 and I could accept done a lot of things better,” he said, according to Courthouse News Service. “I could accept abhorred arresting the ATV. I could accept backward further back, let them crash, again went and arrested them.”
Seetaram testified that Greenhaw hit the ATV twice, causing them to crash.
“The additional blow destroyed the ATV and addled it on its side, killing Jason Trevino,” according to the civilian complaint filed in March 2013.
The Houston Badge Department said it does not animadversion on civilian action and referred The Post to the mayor’s office. A mayoral agent could not be anon accomplished for comment.
The city’s attorney, Henry Carnaby, said he aswell could not animadversion on the case.
Joe Gamaldi, additional carnality admiral for the Houston Badge Officers Union, said the alignment did not see Greenhaw’s accomplishments as an boundless force violation.
“But of advance it’s a tragedy if anyone loses their life,” Gamaldi told The Post.
Grace Weatherly, an advocate for Trevino’s ancestor and the estate, said the adjudication inflicted even added affliction on the family.
“You never wish the ancestors to be in a worse position for accepting brought the case,” she told The Post. “To bethink this absolute accident and how they abstruse about the afterlife and again affirm in foreground of strangers about it is actual difficult for the family.
“It’s traveling through all of that for annihilation — for no result.”
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